NASA's Osiris-REx mission sends a pristine sample of asteroid back to Earth Sunday morning. If it lands successfully, this cupful-or-so of space rock could shed light on the solar system's origins.
Recovery teams participate in field rehearsals in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission in August 2023 in Utah.
The spacecraft successfully released a sample canister holding about a cupful asteroid rock on as it passed within 63,000 miles of the planet's surface, officialsIn the canister should be roughly a coffee mug's worth of rock and other material collected from the asteroid Bennu, which at the time was more than 200 million miles away.
But for that to happen, that canister will now have to make the final leg of its journey alone. To do so, it will have to bear temperatures hotter than lava and slow down from a screaming 36 times the speed of sound before landing in Utah's Great Salt Lake Desert.
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